A man from Migori town made news after he bought a coffin in preparation of death after he said that he was tired of troublesome wife.
Fondly know as Awilo JaSiaya, approached a local carpenter with need to purchase a coffin.
“He was wearing a reflector jacket and we thought he had come to inquire for the price on behalf a boda boda welfare organisation, which often send’s representatives when their colleagues die,” Alphonce Odhiambo, the carpenter said
Odhiambo told him that the coffin costed Ksh.15,000, however after negotiations they agreed Ksh.13,000 which he readily paid.
When we asked him who was going to be buried in the coffin, he said he was supposed to be the body. Then he immediately jumped into several coffins, tried each out before picking his right size,” Mr Odhiambo added.
The man was later ferried to his home in the coffin, but for the boda boda operators to handle the hard task of ferrying a live body inside the coffin, he had to pat with them more fare over a short distance charged Ksh.50 on normal occasions
“Despite having very powerful relatives my wife has been troubling me. I’m fed up with my wife’s troubles. So I’ve planned this funeral because I’m a walking corpse,” Mr Awilo who claimed to be a relative to Siaya Senator James Orengo and former Gem MP Jakoyo Midiwo told reporters.
Despite being married for 18 years with three kids, the troubled man said that his wife had turned into a ‘constant pain in the neck’.
“When we started out I was just a water vendor but we lived happily until my wife started getting loans from chamas. That’s when my woes began,” Mr Awilo lamented.
The man also claimed that the wife had denied him his conjugal rights. Shy enough not to discuss with mother-in-law.
However neighbors had a different story over the predicaments bedeviling the man.
As his close neighbors noted, he is the source of his own difficult life.
“He is always drunk and despite having adult children the man always demands for his conjugal rights and insist on having them infront of his children. Whenever his wife turns down his demands he gets violent,” a neighbour, only identified as Otieno, said.
“Sometimes he ties her (his wife) in the compound and demands sex,” another neigbour said.
At one point the man in the news tried to admit himself into a mortuary.
“He once walked into Migori Referral Mortuary and told the attendants that he had a body which was supposed to be preserved before being restrained as he tried to enter into a freezer,” a mortician at the hospital said.
Shocked neighbours watched in disbelief as he lay inside the coffin claiming that he won’t come out until his wife comes for him.
